Best Quotes about Proverbs
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
Stevens, Wallace
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Cervantes, Miguel De
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb
Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
Hardy, Thomas
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb
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